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TITLE Simple-Minded Murder, The (1982)

ALT__TITLE Den Enfaldige mordaren

DISABILITY Disfigurement Learning Difficulty Limb

COUNTRY Sweden

LENGTH 108

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Hans Alfredson

CAST Stellan Skarsgaard

Maria Johansson

Per Myberg

Nils Ahlrot

Daniel Alfredson

NOTES Set in 1930s Sweden.

On the death of his mother, a young man with learning

difficulties (and a harelip) is sent to work for a local rich

landowner. He is ill-treated by the man who is a petty tyrant to

all his employees. He makes friends with the disabled

daughter of a poor family. Unable to take more debasement

from the landowner he runs away and is harboured by the

girl's family. But the tyrant fights to get him back with bloody

consequences.

 


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